†(a) = commission broker n. (a) (obsolete); (b) an agent who conducts business or trade for another party on the principle of commission (sense 7a)…

A sporting man; a patron of the ‘ring’; a ‘swell’.

A person whose job is to take bets (typically on sports), calculate odds, and pay out winnings, typically either in a betting shop or at a…

slang (originally and chiefly Horse Racing). More fully betting commissioner, turf commissioner. A person acting as a betters' agent or broker, esp…

A betting man; a bookmaker. Obsolete.

Horse Racing slang. A bookmaker (see quot. 1874).

= bookmaker, n. 3.

Betting. colloquial (Australian, New Zealand, and U.S.). = bookmaker, n. 3. Cf. bookie, n.2

a bookmaker.

a bookmaker.

a bookmaker in horse racing.

one who works in a list shop; a bookmaker.